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Sudo su. The need for su is mostly because we don't want the odd programs you run to be exploitable and then unleash damage. This is one of the reasons why root terminal is installed in most distros.
While we are on dialog boxes how about the utility of being able to move windows around underneath a dialog box so you can see data that might be in another window. Windows needs to fix that just like linux has no reason why it shouldn't fix the problem you raised.
Windows has config files too for anything that really needs configuration. Good luck running haproxy or apache without ever touching a config. I myself do find configs annoying. As a programmer I wish they were programatic rather than some strange language specific to the program.
Yeah, man pages aren't great especially if you are dumb enough to look them up in the terminal. Word for the wise, pick up the man page online because the characters per line will be highter, the formatting will be better and you can still use your terminal while you look at things.
Cron has guis you know and also there are alternitives to cron like anacron. This is like saying windows sucks because it has notepad, which maybe we should talk about.
Linux documentation should always be on the web, which is way better than for windows. I had to modify some c++ software to stay ahead of posix deprication. The suggested fix made it so there would have to be an ifndef _WIN32 split with different code for windows and linux. Pretty typical in c/c++. So now I needed to figure out the code for the windows. Needless to say the people talking in segfault about windows c++ were all morons who should not have been giving advise at all.
Tech work is looking stuff up. The fact that you don't have to do it so often in Windows is because you are more familiar with it and have already looked up everything you need to know to build your current environment and any hangups that can be involved. A linux use similarly doesn't have to look things up in Linux as often as in Windows. If someone asked me to launch ISS you bet the fuck I would have to google 90%.
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Sudo su. The need for su is mostly because we don't want the odd programs you run to be exploitable and then unleash damage. This is one of the reasons why root terminal is installed in most distros.
While we are on dialog boxes how about the utility of being able to move windows around underneath a dialog box so you can see data that might be in another window. Windows needs to fix that just like linux has no reason why it shouldn't fix the problem you raised.
Windows has config files too for anything that really needs configuration. Good luck running haproxy or apache without ever touching a config. I myself do find configs annoying. As a programmer I wish they were programatic rather than some strange language specific to the program.
Yeah, man pages aren't great especially if you are dumb enough to look them up in the terminal. Word for the wise, pick up the man page online because the characters per line will be highter, the formatting will be better and you can still use your terminal while you look at things.
Cron has guis you know and also there are alternitives to cron like anacron. This is like saying windows sucks because it has notepad, which maybe we should talk about.
Linux documentation should always be on the web, which is way better than for windows. I had to modify some c++ software to stay ahead of posix deprication. The suggested fix made it so there would have to be an ifndef _WIN32 split with different code for windows and linux. Pretty typical in c/c++. So now I needed to figure out the code for the windows. Needless to say the people talking in segfault about windows c++ were all morons who should not have been giving advise at all.
Tech work is looking stuff up. The fact that you don't have to do it so often in Windows is because you are more familiar with it and have already looked up everything you need to know to build your current environment and any hangups that can be involved. A linux use similarly doesn't have to look things up in Linux as often as in Windows. If someone asked me to launch ISS you bet the fuck I would have to google 90%.